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[Men working on automobiles in vocational training station, Perryville, Md.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Men working on automobiles in vocational training station, Perryville, Md.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Men working on automobiles in vocational training station, Perryville, Md.], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Men working on automobiles in vocational training station, Perryville, Md.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Men working on automobiles in vocational training station, Perryville, Md.]

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Set in Perryville, Maryland, this photograph shows men at work on automobiles inside a vocational training station, a building where students learned practical trades. The picture dates from between 1900 and 1920, a period when the automobile was moving from novelty to everyday machine and mechanics were in growing demand. Underwood & Underwood, the New York firm that produced the image, was a major commercial photographer of the era, and its pictures of training programs like this one give a useful view of how mechanical skills were taught to working men during the early auto age.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesCopyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2641R(?)
SubjectsAutomobile industry--Maryland--Perryville--1910-1920. Vehicle maintenance & repair--Maryland--Perryville--1900-1920. Vocational education--Maryland--Perryville--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183841

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